Weird battery issue for me this morning.Last night the phone was slightly warm so I rebooted it before putting it on the charger around midnight.Took the phone off the charger this morning right around 8:20AMMade 2 calls lasting about a minute each. Haven't done anything else with the phone - no games, no web surfing.Just grabbed the phone and noticed it was in battery-saver mode and cool to the touch.It says 13% left and last charged 1 hour ago. Which is true if it only displays 1 hour increments. It would be 2 hours in just a few more minutes.

It's always possible that the phone wasn't sitting on the wireless charger just right and when I grabbed it this morning maybe it made just enough contact to register as being on the charger - hence it says it was last charged an hour ago. But I don't really believe that. I'm almost positive it was sitting correctly on the charging plate all night. I didn't notice it being out of place this morning and was indeed sitting completely on top of the charging plate.

I rebooted the phone again and put it back on the charger. I'll keep an eye on it today and see what happens.

I do a moderate amount of gaming on the phone. The "Games" tile is a Live Tile and should be giving me notifications in addition to the funky animations with my XBox Live avatar. The problem is that I haven't recieved a single notification on the tile. I've played a few turn-based multiplayer games (most notably Alphajax) and if I go into the games menu, I'll see the updates on the notifications page.

I guess the Live Tile isn't checking xbox live for the updates, but according to the settings, it should be doing so.Wtf.

I think GMail was the culprit in at least some of the battery issues. Do you use GMail? Also, do you have Nokia Drive or Music running in the background? Those two are known to cause battery life issues.

So I got myself the standup charging stand. Bonus: It's compatible with the Verizon 8X. Only the Verizon version of the 8X has wireless charging though.

Anyway, I also found out there's a NFC tag in the base of the charging stand so if I tap the phone there before sitting it on the stand, it opens a special weather + calendar view that makes it look pretty on the stand. Even cooler, the tap can be configured to launch any app on my phone. Now I need to find some good "lock screen" apps.

Based on the experience my mom and sister are having with their 920s, I'm glad I went for the HTC 8X instead. Battery going from 100% to 60% in three hours is totally unacceptable. Maybe Nokia should have been left to die if this is the kind of junk they're selling.

Based on the experience my mom and sister are having with their 920s, I'm glad I went for the HTC 8X instead. Battery going from 100% to 60% in three hours is totally unacceptable. Maybe Nokia should have been left to die if this is the kind of junk they're selling.

Yeah, it's strange. When people ask me how I'm liking my 920, I tell 'em I love it except for the battery life and lack of apps. But then you go on a site like wpcentral.com (which is a fanboy site if I've ever seen one) and guys consistently report days of battery life on their 920's. It seems to be about 50/50 on those like myself that are disappointed with the battery life and those that are thrilled with it.

yeah I'm aware of what handsets do in cases of weak signal; I work in the basement of a concrete and steel building with spotty antenna/repeater coverage and that drains the battery of my 8X something fierce. But even then, I know that it's happening because the network status icon either drops down to "3G" with no bars indicated, or even worse it'll show "1X." The same thing happened with my iPhone 4S; if I saw the "little circle of doom" I knew that the battery life was in the process of taking a dump.

I don't know how AT&T's LTE coverage in Metro Detroit is, but I would hope that Nokia/AT&T wouldn't do something dumb like crank up radio power to cling to LTE instead of just falling back to 3G. and at least in terms of my mother's phone I don't think there are any third party apps in play; and if one or more of the bundled apps is responsible for this, then someone needs a good punch in the face.

Is there a way or an app that can monitor/report what is using battery like Android can?

I loved my 920 at first. Three months in, though, the battery issue has made me regret it. I've actually steered people away from the Lumia 920 entirely for that reason.

Since I use the phone as my alarm clock, and it can't be trusted not to devour it's battery sitting overnight, I power down the phone then plug it in every night. When I take it off the charger in the morning, I ritually restart it again. If I use anything other than IE, email or the phone app, I immediately restart the phone after using the app. It's the only way I can reliably avoid having the POS kill itself. This morning when I woke up, I pulled it off the charger and spent 20 minutes reading one article on Grantland on it. When I finished the article, the battery was at 83%!

And I will shove the phone down the throat of the first person that asks me about the cell phone signal. The phone spends its entire life at 4-5 bars with LTE. Between work and home, it's off WiFi for about 30 minutes each day.

Oh, and the fucking thing always thinks I'm in Maryland. Seriously, how the fuck can the GPS be that far off? I live in San Francisco...

Beanaroo - Your best bet would be a new phone; either get yours replaced, or get a new one. Sounds like something is very off.

Yeah, I've come to that conclusion. After Happysin recommended restarting to see if any zombie apps were causing trouble, I thought I'd figured out the problem: it was just shitty power management on the part of WP8 and apps. There are obviously issues with apps failing to behave and WP8 not managing to control them, but the phone is just a dud. It ate 10% of its battery sitting in my pocket during my 5 minute walk home from work today.

If I call Nokia and bitch, will they help, or do I have to go through AT&T for this?

I cheated on my iPhone tonight. Just for a second. Just to see how it felt. I took a trip to the AT&T store to make sure I wanted to burn my upgrade and take up with a new mistress.

I have Windows 8 running on my laptop and I actually like it. I was hoping I would feel the same about Metro on the phone as I did about it on the laptop. It just felt so dark and terminal like (bad memories from using OpenVMS at an old job). Too much text...too busy with the live tiles...

Then there's the size factor. It was a bit shocking holding my iPhone 4 and then hoisting up the Lumia. I mean, I bet I had bigger, heavier, bulkier phones in the past, but I was put off thinking about sliding it with a case on into my pocket. The screen though...it's gorgeous!

I played around for 10 minutes, and left the store torn. I want to fall for this phone, but it's an intimidating prospect...giving up the phone OS I've spent the last five and a half years with, and coming to terms with radically different hardware. Any iPhone converts have advice/insight about how to take the plunge?

You feel good and your phone feels alive. It really comes down to how much of an app whore you are. If you feel the need to download the hotest new apps every day, this is not the phone for you. If you're an Instagram user, not for you. There are good official apps, and then there are excellent third-party apps for the same service that blow the official ones out of the water on WP though.

If your major social networks are Facebook and Twitter, this is a great phone. If you don't do social networking at all, you'll never see the integration.

Store contacts and calendar in a Microsoft account. Oddly enough, a Microsoft account is the most compatible across mobile platforms due to the wide support of Exchange ActiveSync.

I've got both an iPhone 5 and L920 right now; agree with Entegy... if you really need the latest fad apps, you'll be disappointed, so it really depends on your typical use case. And you can tell from this forum that some of us have battery issues, and some of us don't, so that's kind of hit or miss. (My first L920 had bad battery life, but I lost it, and the second L920 has great battery life.) If you do get a L920 and you find the battery sucks, get it exchanged immediately, because it does seem to happen to a nontrivial percentage of them, and a swap-out seems to fix it.

BUT, I like the UI a lot (even though it does need a bit more refinement). In my mind, iOS is basically just an app launcher at this point. WP8 allows you to create a customizable dashboard of all the stuff that you prioritize as high, which is great. Stuff that you need to use occasionally but not often can just be demoted to the app launcher, stuff that you want constant updates and in your face get Live Tiled. So with a swish of the Live Tiles, I get all my key info up front without opening a dozen different apps. (Weather, stock prices, calendar, etc.) It feels like with some tweaking and filling in some gaps (notification center), it really has the potential to be great. You don't really get that in iOS as every app is "equal" per say, but with WP8, you choose how to prioritize certain apps. WP8 is more flexible than iOS but not as flexible as Android; some features I really miss from Android are a real accessible file system (although WP8 kind of has a quasi-standard file system thingy that tries to autotranscode stuff on the fly), and a little bit better multitasking (my IM program has to constantly reconnect every time I task switch to it).

The hardware is a beast; night images are great because of OIS, battery life is good if you don't have a borked unit (significantly better than my old HTC One X), wireless charging can make a big difference for a lot of people (I charge my phone a lot more throughout the day with the wireless charger than I would have with my One X... I have a wireless charger on my office desk, so whenever I'm at my desk the phone gets topped up, whereas I'd always wait until the end of the day to charge up my One X so it was always running on fumes by the end of the day), and the super sensitive screen has made big difference in Beijing winters with gloves on and because I walk home from work.

Overall, I'm quite happy with the change. My iPhone 5 is just basically relegated to dumb phone mode now (just to make and receive calls), but my main use is now through the 920. The size and weight don't bother me, and my 920 doesn't need a case. And best of all, I love the blinding yellow bananaphoneness!

I agree with what you're saying about iOS being an app launcher. I've got an iPad lying around to play with all the latest apps du jour in that ecosystem, and that's part of the reason I've contemplated this affair switch in the phone realm.

The camera is a huge reason why I wanted to go for the Lumia, and I can get the wireless charge for free right now. I do use social media a lot, so that intergration would be a plus...and it was nice to see how other have been able to customize their start screen...

I'm feeling a bit better about taking the plunge, so thanks all for the advice!

well after 1 day and 2 hours off the charger - no email checking (outlook or gmail) the phone is at 83% battery.

maybe it is gmail that is killing this thing randomly. i'm going to cut my outlook mail back on after the next charge to see what goes. charge after that i'm going to disable outlook and cut on gmail just to see if i can't pinpoint it.

I agree with what you're saying about iOS being an app launcher. I've got an iPad lying around to play with all the latest apps du jour in that ecosystem, and that's part of the reason I've contemplated this affair switch in the phone realm.

The camera is a huge reason why I wanted to go for the Lumia, and I can get the wireless charge for free right now. I do use social media a lot, so that intergration would be a plus...and it was nice to see how other have been able to customize their start screen...

I'm feeling a bit better about taking the plunge, so thanks all for the advice!

Keep posting as you go through the whole getting used to it. I'm about 4 months into it.

There are things I totally love about WP8, but I have to say, some of Apple's polish really could be added. I find myself missing a lot of little behaviors (and a couple biggies as well). WP 8 is great globally, but some of its parts really annoy me when i cpompare them to iOS.

The 920 itself seems rock solid though. Have no complaints about the hardware at all; and I am really enjoying the screen real estate.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but it's really getting on my nerves that they haven't shipped out the Portico update for the BUILD devices. It's just the Rogers phone without the Rogers firmware, I can't imagine why the hell it's taking them so long.